But in this case, they detected tiny variations in the chemical compositions of very old books. After taking a sample and running it through a gas chromatograph/mass spectrometer combination ...

No, you're not weird for sticking your nose straight in the pages. Do you like to have your nose in a book? No, we’re not talking figuratively. Something about the scent of old books can perk up ...

Old books can be beautiful to look at. But handle with care — they just might be toxic. The covers of Victorian-era books are already known to sometimes have pigments that contain toxic heavy ...

Sometimes she’d handle the old book when she dusted or repainted, but mostly she didn’t think too much about it. Until, that is, she stumbled upon a news article in 2022 about the University ...

Getting high on great literature is taking on a whole new meaning. It turns out that if you spend enough time around old books and decaying manuscripts in dank archives you can start to hallucinate.